Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Synopsis

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier is produced by Kevin Feige, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

Do you love Marvel movies? Do you love them so much that you could watch them for 29 straight hours? Well, then I have some amazing news for you, as two of the nation's biggest theater chains are planning marathons of that very nature leading up to special early screenings of The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

After much agonizing, rank swapping, and last-minute screening squeeze-ins, I am ready to reveal my Top 10 for 2014 - and it’s a list of movies that made me feel hundreds of kinds of emotions throughout the year and that I plan to watch many times again in the future.

The more evil and destructive, the more memorable the villain is. Maybe they are redeemed by the end or maybe the don’t even make it to the close, either way, they keep us on our feet. So here we’ve compiled a list of our 10 best, most memorable villains of 2014.

As we’ve been saying all week, 2014 was truly a great year for movies. The entire calendar was filled up with both memorable and surprising features, from indies to blockbusters, and these titles were made up of some incredible cinematic moments that we will not be soon forgetting.

The superhero movie craze is at an all-time high in popularity. It’s not just the hardcore comic book fans that watch these films, it’s the average viewer who is just looking for a good time at the movie theater, and superhero films happen to be one of the best ways to accomplish this.

Thankfully Guardians of the Galaxy was a fantastic movie (one of the best of the year, in fact). The diehard fans who stayed through to the very end for that final post-credits scene were undoubtedly hoping for some Avengers 2 stinger, and they didn't get it.

2014 was a great year for superhero movies, and one of the best reviewed films in the genre was Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, while it may be one of the better offerings in the MCU, it also happens to be filled with more mistakes than any other movie this year.

Today is the day that we celebrate Thanksgiving – the one day a year specifically put aside to look back on the previous few months and give thanks for everything in our lives that makes us happy. For fans of comic book movies, there is plenty to be thankful for.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier has been a game changer from the word go. It changed the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a major plot point in its own film, it became one of (if not the) first films to go on record as saying nitpicking through internet video series helped make it a better movie, and it turned Captain America into a brand name much like Iron Man did when it kicked everything off in 2008. But could it make even more history and become the first Marvel Studios film up for Best Picture at the Oscars?

Anthony Mackie almost died while filming Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But his brush with death wasn’t the result of a fight scene gone wrong; it was because he was “punched in the face by a parked van.” Now that’s a way to go.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to change is a massive way. As we learned earlier tonight, Robert Downey Jr. is now in negotiations to star in Joe and Anthony Russo's Captain America 3 - a film that is expected to launch big screen adaptation of the massive 2006 Marvel Comics crossover event known as Civil War. What you may not know, however, is that we have already started to see evidence of this brewing conflict in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

After seeing Captain America: The Winter Soldier earlier this year, many fans found one question consistently on their minds: where is Red Skull? At the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, the villain was seen being sucked into space by the Tesseract, and in the time since we've received no clues in regards to his whereabouts.

Those of you who have watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier with a real eagle eye for detail may have noticed that there is an extra hero in the film who never gets any mention or acclaim - and he drives a big yellow truck.

There’s a lot of expensive explosions and CGI-laden effects in The Winter Soldier. On Blu-ray the scenes are crisp and sharp, featuring Captain America fighting on elevators and running through doors and walls while chasing foes. The stunt work has become a hallmark of Marvel films and thanks to the extended minor cast in The Winter Soldier, audiences can root for a variety of different fighting styles inside a much larger film.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier's success is owed in part to the very webseries that would gladly tear it down. It turns out the superhero sequel's helmers, Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, are big fans of Honest Trailers, and set the standards for their story's logic exceptionally high because of it.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors confessed that Jeremy Renner was initially supposed to have a pretty thrilling part to play in the sequel. However, it's one that not even the DVD release will show you, though a commentary track alludes to it.

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy has been, without question, the completely dominating force at the August 2014 box office. Debuting on the first of the month, the film opened with a record-setting $94 million, and has spent 19 of the last 31 days holding the number one spot in the domestic top 10.

Just when you thought you'd seen all of the easter eggs from Captain America:The Winter Soldier, more have surfaced connecting within and outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. See if you can spot Joss Whedon amongs the easter eggs, bonus points if you do so without reading the subtitles.

In an exclusive interview with the Russos today, they told me the shift was inevitable… and ultimately great for fans. “We knew when they announced that it was somewhat of a placeholder, that it was a game of chicken to see if Marvel really had a film that was going to land on that date or not,” Joe Russo explained

Marvel Studios has been working hard to put out good stuff for years, but they truly stepped up their game earlier this year with the release of Joe and Anthony Russo's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Not only was the film yet another thrilling chapter in the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe - moving the world forward in a fascinating way - it was also an incredibly well-executed political thriller that just happen to have comic book characters playing out the roles of heroes and villains.

If you're a regular Amazon user, you may have noticed that you can't seem to find Captain America 2 on the site for pre-order. Searching the online superstore for the Marvel Studios film reveals links to purchase the movie digitally and to the first movie in the solo franchise, Captain America: The First Avenger, but no sign of any editions Captain America: The Winter Soldier on any physical format.

We don't have the answer. But we'd love to hear your opinions. Why are box office numbers down this season? And which films will bring them back up? Are you staying away from theaters this season? Are there better options at home? Or outside?

Some studios are trying to make great movies, trying to make profit, trying to make hits. But right now, Disney is acting completely gangsta. They've got their Disney animated fare, and completely unrelated Pixar movies. They've got Marvel completely crushing things, and they've got a savagely bombastic live-action branch of films for families.

Thanks to its $94 million opening weekend, the Marvel Studios film that everyone is talking about this week is James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. But let’s not forget that the comic book company also released another absolutely fantastic film earlier this year: Joe and Anthony Russo’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

When Sebastian Stan revealed his nine-picture deal with Marvel Studios earlier this year, it painted a pretty clear picture of what the comic book franchise has planned for the future of Captain America. With Chris Evans' contract ending after Avengers 3, it makes sense that Marvel would follow the events of the comics and have the character's life-long best friend, Bucky Barnes (Stan's character), pick up the title and the shield to become the new Captain America.

We decided that today would be a great day to regroup, reflect and single out the best movies we have seen on screen so far in 2014. The outstanding team of Cinema Blend movie writers have chosen to champion movies both massive and small, passionate and intimate. Even by expanding our list to 10, there are titles we had to leave off of the list.

Escapism has always been one of the biggest draws of cinema. Whether an audience just wants to hang out with a couple of funny people and laugh at their jokes for 90 minutes or get sucked into a 120 minute-long space opera complete with starship battles, the closer a person can get to the movie world in a theater, the better. Enter the new theater technology known as 4DX, which, for the first time ever, was used in the U.S. this past weekend.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is at the top of the list of worldwide grosses for 2014. With $712.7 million to its credit, the star-studded superhero ensemble has inched past Captain America: The Winter Solider, which currently boasts $711.2 million.

Thanks to some unbridled critical and box office success, practically everyone in the world knows the big stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Captain America (and the actors who play them) are all not only true blue household names, and the same can be said for their females leads and villains. But what about the supporting players of the big screen comic book world?

May traditionally marks the start of the summer blockbuster season. This weekend The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swung into theaters to kick things off, but depending on how you look at it, the first sequel in the rebooted franchise either got things started with a bang or a pop.

Disney is having a very good year. That's probably stating the obvious, when we consider the Frozen overflow into 2014 and the success of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but the actual numbers for both films have contributed greatly to a massive international box office haul for the studio...

Captain America continued his heroic run this weekend. The Winter Soldier held on to number one for a third weekend in a row, adding $26 million to its domestic total and pushing past the $200 million mark. Rio 2 also held strong, continuing in second place with $22 million, just edging out the new competition.

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Why does it feel like this is all being decided on a whim? Whatever the case, it's treating movies like MadLibs. The absurdly long climax of The Winter Soldier honors Feige's wish to see helicarriers crashing, but it doesn't make much sense.

As a result, we have nine films worth of unanswered questions, unresolved cliffhangers and nagging mysteries that no one has been in a rush to conclude. Knowing Marvel, some of these topics could become major story ideas at a later date, while others could be completely forgotten forever.

the superhero sequel has broken the record for biggest April opening ever (Sorry, Fast Five), and it's looking like the word of mouth campaign is spreading fast. Sure, critics love Cap 2, but fans are making an unexpected aspect of the movie go viral, which might spur a second major wave of moviegoers to the theaters this week.

Wouldn't it be amazing to cozy up on a mat with a bunch of other people and watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Tony Stark, himself, Robert Downey Jr.? The actor decided to spend his birthday "recognizing the cosmic miracle of Captain America 2 opening the same day" as his birthday by wrangling up twenty kids and watching the movie with them.

The fictional clandestine organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. plays a massive role in the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and as a result just about all of the major players get a time to shine. Both Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow play important supporting characters in the story, andCobie Smulder’s Maria Hill makes her first big appearance since The Avengers. But where was Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye?

The comment I’ve seen under so many of our Cap stories is that Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the best Marvel movie to date, surpassing The Avengers. Which is a legit opinion… but not one that I share.

I have put together a fun little guide to navigate you through all of the important consequences that Captain America: The Winter Soldier sets up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What can we expect from the movie’s major players in the future? Read on to find out!

When one of the Avengers has a movie release, it's a smart idea not to try and put out anything else that same weekend. Hollywood heeded this advice and Captain America: The Winter Soldier had the limelight all to itself, breaking a monthly record and scoring an easy number one.

Captain America: The Winter Solider has gone on to beat the all time record for opening in April, as well as the highest single day take for the month. A pretty impressive feat, it's the latest case of a Marvel Studios film enjoying “The Avengers Bump,” as this is a far cry from the weaker opening of The First Avenger in 2011.

At this stage in the game, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is literally growing bigger and bigger every week. If the comic book movie studio isn’t putting out a new movie, it’s releasing one of its films on Blu-ray and DVD, creating a new short film or airing a new episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. For those who don’t follow the material religiously it can be a bit tricky keeping up with all of the various changes. Fortunately, we’re here to help.